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Parents: How to Use Super Power LOOK with YOUR Family

This video compliments Hedgy's Guide to Calm PDF or EPUB book and Hedgy's Guide to Teaching Hedgy's Guide to Calm PDF (found on www.supercalmhedgy.com). 

Please take the Hedgy's Guide to Calm 21 Day Challenge yourself! The 21 days will help you to become familiar with how to use the Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU before adding them to your family's daily rhythm and routine AND will provide YOU with the tools and skills to help calm YOURSELF down. 

Calm parent + Calm children = A calm and loving home 

Before teaching the individual Super Powers, I would highly recommend you introduce Hedgy (your lovable and trustworthy guide) and 'Hedgy's Calm Action Song'. The MP3 with the first five Super Powers is found at www.supercalmhedgy.com along with Hedgy's Calm Action Cards (Hedgy performing each action that goes with the song). 

Sing and move with Hedgy's Calm Action Song all day long and then slowly introduce each Super Power separately. (Use the MP3 with VISUALIZE. once you are ready to introduce Super Power VISUALIZE to your children.) Hedgy (and I) will guide you through how to teach and use each of the Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU! beginning with Super Power 1) STOP. followed by Super Power 2) LOOK. 

STOP. and LOOK. are two very powerful Super Powers. Now that your children have practiced using their Super Power STOP. for a period of time, it is time to introduce Super Power 2) LOOK. Super Power LOOK. will teach your children to become more "in tune" with how their own body responds to different situations. 

You can begin by playing the "FREEZE" games I described for practicing STOP. and when the children are frozen, have them LOOK at what their body is doing by mindfully scanning their own bodies from head to toe. You can guide your children by describing how your own body is responding. (This may be examples of how your body is responding because you have been moving during the game.) "I have sweat on my forehead. My eyes are watering. My nose is running. My mouth feels dry. I am smiling. I am breathing fast. My heart beat is racing. My arm pits are sweaty. My arms feel heavy. My knees are shaking." Play the game a second time and have your children describe what is going on in their own bodies to themselves, a friend, the whole class, and/or in a journal. 

A good journal prompt may be: Today I (PLAYED A FREEZE GAME) and I STOP.ped and scanned my body using my Super Power 2) LOOK. and my body responded by (ANSWER HERE). 

Encourage them to also draw what their body was doing. I would also have the children begin to use Super Powers STOP. and LOOK. during circle and meeting time and before and after transitions. 

Super Power LOOK. is great to use at bed time! Having your children LOOK at what their body is doing or tell them what you see your own or their body is doing just to get the conversation started. 

Having your children use LOOK. alone or with their other Super Powers will help them to calm themselves down and help them to have a good and long night's sleep. And that everyone in your family will benefit from that. If you notice that one or more of your children looks sad, mad, upset, stressed, depressed, or excited support them is using their Super Powers STOP. and LOOK. 

TAKE - YOUR - TIME 

The Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU are a WHOLE life skills and it is beneficial for them to be learned over an extended period of time for a better understanding and to allow "new behaviors to become automatic and enacted with minimum conscious awareness because the repetitive behavioral patterns are literally etched into our neural pathways.” - Psychology Today 

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Parents: How to Use Super Power LOOK with YOUR Family